We have used the Dell Cloud Servers (C2100 to be exact). Turn around time is a little slower, but it's worth it IMHO.
On 11/3/10 8:36 AM, "Patrick Angeles" <[email protected]> wrote: >Jason, > >Unless you're operating at Google scale, it doesn't make economic sense to >build your own unless you're *really into that*. Most major vendors (HP, >Dell, SuperMicro) will offer a configuration that is very suitable for >Hadoop. > >Regards, > >- P > > >On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Jason Lotz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We are in the process of analyzing our options for the future purchases >>of >> our Hadoop/HBase DN/RS servers. Currently, we purchase Dell PowerEdge >> R710's which work well for us. However, we know that there are other >> options that may give us more bang for our buck. >> >> I'm not as interested in knowing the specs of the machines that people >>are >> using. Rather, I'm curious to know where you buy them from or if you >>are >> building them yourselves. >> >> Any feedback on how you acquire server hardware in your environment >>would >> be >> greatly appreciated. >> >> Jason >>
